"surviving
you, always" review
blitz (1984)
According to Saccharine Trust's
lead vocalist Jack Brewer, the cover photo of Surviving You, Always (taken
by R.C Wiles in 1940) is of a woman who fell to her death from the top of
the Empire State Building in New York City. Similarly macabre themes
permeate the twelve originals herein, evidenced by the urgency in delivery
and lyrical theme in such selections as Lot's Seed, YHWH On Acid, and A Good
Night's Bleeding. Brewer downplays the religious overtones of the material,
maintaining that the band's inclinations were temporal, alluding to theology
only in their universality. Whatever the case, Surviving You, Always is as
gripping a record as the SST label has ever produced.
